Auden’s Blessing
She might as well hurry and flatter him to salvage the situation…
Suppressing the discomfort brought on by her own cheesiness, she said, “Odin, you are the lighthouse of my life. From now on, whenever I face hardships, I’ll scatter these stars you’ve given me into the sky to guide my path…”
“Mhm.”
She swallowed and continued, “And then I’ll tell others—this is Odin’s blessing, a gift from the greatest deity in the entire universe…” By this point, her fingers had gone cold enough to tremble slightly.
“Mhm.”
His gaze was so gentle, yet it felt like blade after blade dissecting her, as if silently saying: You know what to do.
Even if she tried to return the star-sand now, she’d probably still e